The Israel-Hamas hostage deal.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Israel-Hamas hostage deal. Early Wednesday, Israel and Hamas agreed to a hostage deal and a four-day pause in fighting. It is the first ceasefire since Hamas's attack on Israel October 7 that sparked six weeks of air and ground assaults in the Gaza Strip.
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| 1:00.0 | I'm your host, Isaac Sond, on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the Israel Hamas hostage swap, news of which broke early this morning. |
| 1:09.5 | We were planning to cover the George Santos controversy and |
| 1:14.3 | ethics report and his decision not to run for re-election, but we've given that story a bit of |
| 1:18.8 | coverage, and we haven't covered the Israel-Humas, Palestine, Gaza story in a week or two, |
| 1:26.1 | and it feels like this is a big enough development that we should jump in. |
| 1:29.4 | So we pivoted. We're going to cover that today. But before we jump in, I want to give a quick |
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